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Hi everyone! As part of my plan to produce concrete proof that Level 51 isn't a mindless Phero/Lele robot, I've undertaken a Super Multis streak without either Pheromosa OR Tapu Lele on my team! The reason for this is simple: Pheromosa and Tapu Lele kind of suck in Multis. Oh well. Reporting a completed streak of—rather frustratingly—99 in Super Multis with AI Partner.

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Anyway, here's the team! I paired with Colress, who used Porygon2-4 and Metagross-4. In retrospect Porygon2-3 would have been a way better set, but while acknowledging that is one thing, running into Colress, with Porygon2-3 and Metagross-4, with Porygon2-3 as the lead and Metagross-4 in the second spot, AND remembering to scout him, is another matter entirely. This team incorporates a lot of patterns noticeable in other high-performing 2v2 streaks: notably, the Mega Salamence / Mega Metagross pairing hearkens back to cannibal and ProjectTitan313's human Multis streak, while my lead resembles Pav A Nice Day's Choice Specs Tapu Koko from his AI Multis streak (which Volt Switches out into said Mega Salamence, a la turskain's Raikou / Salamence Super Doubles streak from Maison days).

Porygon2 is such a good Pokemon. I don't understand why, but it just is. Even with 252/0 it has enough bulk to take a vast majority of the hits that will be thrown at it, while the 252+ investment in Special Attack mean that it actually does a lot of damage. Download is a really strong ability when it activates a Special Attack boost, letting Porygon2 do way more damage than you'd think it should. It's easy to forget that this thing actually has a pretty respectable Special Attack stat of 105, and it sure shows. The only downside of this set was that Colress really enjoyed using Thunder Wave, even on things that one really shouldn't be Thunder Waving—I lost my streak when it Thunder Waved the opposing Synchronize Lum Espeon-3 and then proceeded to get fully paralysed 3 turns in a row. I'd attribute this phenomenon to the possibility that the AI thought that my Electric Terrain would boost Thunder Wave, but that's neither here nor there, huh? Sometimes, though, I was pretty grateful for the speed control Thunder Wave afforded me, making opposing Tyranitar or Gyarados leads a lot less pressuring on my resources since I could be fairly sure they would wind up paralysed even if they did get a Dance off. The rest of the set is pretty alright—notably, Shadow Ball hits some fun stuff like a lot of TR setters, though Porygon2 tends to never use it on Turn 1—and all in all Porygon2 delivered way above what I expected from it, even with a half-brain-dead AI controlling it. Poor duck, it's not your fault your trainer is so bad.

Oh, also, Download technically lets you determine enemy sets from Turn 0 in some edge cases, but I never actually did that.

There's a few reasons why Metagross-4 is a good choice to give to your AI partner. For one, it's extremely easy to use, since it just has 4 attacks, all of which deal a lot of pain in the right situations. Furthermore, the AI actually knows how to use Bullet Punch properly, so it's a fairly safe bet to rely on it to finish off a weakened Pokemon in Bullet Punch range, taking a little of the enigma out of the AI's opaque logic sequences. With bulk, power, and speed—enough for the Tree, at any rate—the only downside is probably the AI's fondness for Brick Break's secondary effect. If you notice the opponent get a screen up, you can be almost sure your AI will try to break the screen, whether it's actually a good move or not. I've almost lost off this thing Brick Breaking an opposing Salamence instead of finishing it off with Zen Headbutt. There's not much to say about a set as simple as this, but Metagross is fearsomely effective even in the hands of an AI and it's probably flat out one of the best Pokemon you could entrust to your lifeless partner.

With this stuff to work with, I looked into my Battle Tree box, and pulled out Tapu Koko and Salamence. As mentioned earlier, these have some great synergy together—Salamence gets a surprising number of safe switch-ins since nothing really tries to use a paralysing or sleep move on Tapu Koko, and Tapu Koko also encourages opposing Garchomp-3 and Landorus-2 to lock into Earthquake and Earth Power respectively, making Salamence an absurdly good switch-in into a lot of the situations where I couldn't leave Tapu Koko in, whether by Volt Switch or a normal switch. Salamence also has the added benefit of providing Intimidate, making Porygon2 stick around a lot longer and also actually deal damage beyond just Thunder Waving stuff. Here's the sets I used:

Classic Choice Specs Tapu Koko. There's not much to say here, except I suppose to point out Grass Knot; I found it an important tool especially against Mamoswine leads, which threatened an OHKO onto both Tapu Koko and Salamence. I never really found myself wanting to use Hidden Power Ice, since Thunderbolt generally does more damage on all the Dragon/Flying types, and I'm not leaving Tapu Koko in on Garchomp just in case it's Garchomp-3.

Two noteworthy things: firstly, Flamethrower with a Jolly nature. I had Dragon Dance on this the first two times I tried Super Multis, but I never used it and I lost my second streak to a Ferrothorn + Mega Scizor because I couldn't do enough damage. Flamethrower was the obvious replacement; even without investment and a negative nature it does good damage to threats like Ferrothorn, Mega Scizor, Escavalier, and—perhaps somewhat interestingly—Steelix. However, I forgot about the fact that this Salamence wasn't Hyper Trained in Special Attack, so I got this streak with a Special Attack IV of 6. Take from that what you will, I guess.

The other odd thing about this set, which is a little less obvious, is the inclusion of Earthquake when neither of my allies can Protect against it, neither are immune to it or even resist it, and indeed it even hits Metagross-4 super-effectively (and might 2HKO it, I think). This was pretty much a necessary evil, allowing me to do some semblance of damage to annoying Police Officer Pokemon like Gigalith and Tyranitar when Porygon2 refused to get KOd to let Metagross in to actually damage them before they get out of control (I almost lost this streak to Gigalith-4). Other than that, the set is pretty simple, hitting a nice speed tier at 187, tying only with Hawlucha-1 and -4, which are obviously not huge threats (note that the empty speed tier at 186 is not attainable, since 232 EVs give a stat of 185).

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So, on to the loss itself! It was battle 100, I was once again rushing through battles a bit because I wanted to go to sleep after 100 (which, ironically, I technically did), and out pop Kiawe and a random Golfer. I'm quite upset by this, since Kiawe is definitely the hardest special trainer for this team, with annoying Pokemon like the semi-broken Mega Kangaskhan and Marowak-"I'll redirect all your Thunderbolts"-Alola. Eeveelution Golfers are either really good for the team, with stuff like Vaporeon and select Glaceon sets being OHKOed by Tapu Koko, or really bad, when Porygon2 insists on Thunder Waving into Synchronize or when Umbreon-4 sets up one Curse too many. No prizes for guessing what happened in the battle.

As Turn 1 starts I face down an opposing Espeon and Mega Kangaskhan; I'm aware that Tapu Koko might get deleted this turn by Fake Out + some strong attack from Espeon, but I don't want to risk losing Mega Salamence, or having it heavily dented, since that would likely force me to lock Tapu Koko into an attack without prior knowledge of all my opponents' Pokemon. I indeed lose Tapu Koko turn 1 to Fake Out + Hyper Beam, and Kangaskhan is duly paralysed by Porygon2.

It all goes downhill from here; playing too safely allows Porygon2 to launch a Thunder Wave at a Lum Berry Espeon, which can only end in tears. Umbreon-4 shows up in the back and gets one Curse off, so I can only bring it down to 50%, outside range of an OHKO from Mega Metagross' Brick Break. Hope springs anew when Kiawe's second Pokemon is revealed to be Talonflame-"completely incapable of damaging any Steel- or Rock-type"-3, but Metagross takes more damage than I expected from Payback, and it doesn't even go for the potential Brick Break critical hit onto Umbreon, instead opting to Zen Headbutt the Talonflame because "it does more damage". Thanks, Colress.

Selected Battle Videos:
#47: 5FUG-WWWW-WWW8-2SPQ: A close call of some sort, probably. I don't really remember.
#79: GKLG-WWWW-WWW8-2SQ2: I forget what's in this video. Maybe it's worth watching?
#95: FU3G-WWWW-WWW8-2SQL: Illustrating the importance of Protect not only as a move to scout your opponent's moves, but also your ally's. Also, to burn turns while Porygon2 uses Thunder Wave.#100: 57HG-WWWW-WWW8-2SQZ: Loss video.

That was a fun post to write. I'm not too upset about this loss, since I didn't put that much time into it, unlike my two prior Doubles streaks; also, I probably should have lost the streak a couple battles before this, but I got a lucky critical hit onto an opposing Articuno with Salamence's Double-Edge. Apologies for the following missing items from this post: (a) edgy / pretentious quote; (b) quirky proof photo; (c) actual thought put into recording the Battle Videos and explaining them. I might edit in the latter at a later time, but this is highly unlikely, since probably exactly 0 people are going to watch these videos anyway.

Hi everyone, I am getting a late start on Gen 7 but I'm about to beat the game and I'm getting ready to bring over all my breeding stuff from Gen 6to start the Battle Tree! Mainly, I'm looking for recommended sets for Salamence so I don't waste time not having an egg move or something silly when I start breeding them. It's looking like it only potentially needs Dragon Dance? Should I go Adamant or Jolly?

Hi everyone, I am getting a late start on Gen 7 but I'm about to beat the game and I'm getting ready to bring over all my breeding stuff from Gen 6to start the Battle Tree! Mainly, I'm looking for recommended sets for Salamence so I don't waste time not having an egg move or something silly when I start breeding them. It's looking like it only potentially needs Dragon Dance? Should I go Adamant or Jolly?

Hey there! I'd suggest you also get Hydro Pump and Thrash for EMs. Not likely you'd ever use them, but in case you ever want to run a Z-Hydro Pump Salamence or Outrage-like Mega Salamence, even though the latter will be almost never used, unless for fun. As for Jolly or Adamant, I personally would say Jolly, but both are pretty viable, it just depends on if you want speed or reliability when setting up, when combined with your EV spread.

However, if there's one thing I suggest, is that you do as much of your breeding in Gen 6. The actual breeding doesn't really change, time wise, except IV checking (which is pretty irrelevant due to Hyper Training), but level grinding and EV training is a whole lot better, which, in my opinion, is worth the extra time in breeding. Plus, there's things like move tutors that you'll eventually want to take advantage of, if you end up needing something like Hyper Voice Salamence/Gardevoir/Svlveon or Knock Off or whatever.

Welp, I'm back to report my loss. I lost at 94 sadly. It was an awesome run, I never imagined to get this far. Sadly I lost to Pelipper and Suicune. Water seems to be a bigger weakness to my team than I anticipated. Especially Primarina was a huge threat. But I'm happy with how far I got. Sadly not 101 Wins as I wished to get but 94 is good enough for me. For some reason I cant upload the 80th win video.... but all others, 60, 70, 90 and 94, are all here.

An old time lurker here at Smogon asking for some advice for Super Singles. Currently on my first 50 streak and wondering what I should change, if anything, on my current 'mons, or if there's one I should swap out for something better. I tried to do the best I could with pokemon I had sitting in boxes, so please excuse the eclectic choice:

From a time when Landorus wasn't banned in Black/White, hes sweeped 50% of teams so far by himself, although the miss chance on Focus Blast (YOLO Blast) has turned some battles into very close calls (was sweating a little against Reds Lapras on battle 50 or ice types in general, relief on the OHKO). Only changed to Rock Slide from Psychic in SuMo, so Nature isn't ideal, but has worked wonders so far on things that are x4 weak. Just misses out on a few OHKO's though that he would probably get with a little attack investment.

Was using Greninja at first, however Bolt/Beam would run right through the team. After one too many Regice and Porygon-2/Z I swapped to Tapu Koko and have gotten so far with him. Gigavolt Havoc, while not the nuke it would seem, does open up a lot of mons to be 2HKO'd by the surviving member. Dazzling Gleam is probably the one to change, rarely used it since HP Ice hits anything it's usually going for about as hard (or Koko just has no reason to be out against).

A Gyarados I've had since Emerald, this guy still has his old DDP EV spread. A basic dragon dancer, I bring him in on something that cannot do enough to 4HKO and proceed to setup. Used to have Stone Edge, but changed to Crunch after Landorus was given Rock Slide (and since this is the first game I've owned where he actually learns it).

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Thanks for taking the time to look through my shitpost level team! I'll post again when it fails after 5 more battles. Any critique and changes really welcome, this team is probably far and away the worst in this thread and needs much work. I imaging swapping Gyarados for Salamence would be the most obvious choice, would need to get on the breeding train for that one (also after using him for about a decade I'm kinda attached heh).

An old time lurker here at Smogon asking for some advice for Super Singles. Currently on my first 50 streak and wondering what I should change, if anything, on my current 'mons, or if there's one I should swap out for something better. I tried to do the best I could with pokemon I had sitting in boxes, so please excuse the eclectic choice:

From a time when Landorus wasn't banned in Black/White, hes sweeped 50% of teams so far by himself, although the miss chance on Focus Blast (YOLO Blast) has turned some battles into very close calls (was sweating a little against Reds Lapras on battle 50 or ice types in general, relief on the OHKO). Only changed to Rock Slide from Psychic in SuMo, so Nature isn't ideal, but has worked wonders so far on things that are x4 weak. Just misses out on a few OHKO's though that he would probably get with a little attack investment.

Was using Greninja at first, however Bolt/Beam would run right through the team. After one too many Regice and Porygon-2/Z I swapped to Tapu Koko and have gotten so far with him. Gigavolt Havoc, while not the nuke it would seem, does open up a lot of mons to be 2HKO'd by the surviving member. Dazzling Gleam is probably the one to change, rarely used it since HP Ice hits anything it's usually going for about as hard (or Koko just has no reason to be out against).

A Gyarados I've had since Emerald, this guy still has his old DDP EV spread. A basic dragon dancer, I bring him in on something that cannot do enough to 4HKO and proceed to setup. Used to have Stone Edge, but changed to Crunch after Landorus was given Rock Slide (and since this is the first game I've owned where he actually learns it).

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Thanks for taking the time to look through my shitpost level team! I'll post again when it fails after 5 more battles. Any critique and changes really welcome, this team is probably far and away the worst in this thread and needs much work. I imaging swapping Gyarados for Salamence would be the most obvious choice, would need to get on the breeding train for that one (also after using him for about a decade I'm kinda attached heh).

I don't actually see any real reason to run Focus Blast on Landorus anyway. It doesn't actually add any extra coverage, as things that resist Ground (Flying, Grass, Bug) are hit neutrally or supereffectively by Poison (Sludge Wave) and Ground moves are supereffective on Rock and Steel types that are also covered by Focus Blast. Celesteela does not exist on tree either, and you also run Tapu Koko who can make quick work of Skarmory. I'd suggest to run Psychic, or even U-turn to pivot out of Ice types while breaking sashes/sturdys.
It's also possibly considerable to run Smack Down which would allow you to make fliers/levitaters hittable by Earth Power implying you aren't at risk of a 1hko.

Unfortunately having already moved to Gen 7 you are missing out on possibility of running Superpower or Knockoff :(

What would be a good Pokemon to go with standard Mega Salamence and Kartana? I've tried using Ash-Greninja, but it just doesn't seem to be pulling its weight most of the time, and I just got swept by Red's Lapras on my first Battle Tree run (it dodged all of my attacks, which were 100% accuracy moves, and OHKO'd my entire team).

I like Landorus-I and have a perfect Sheer Force one, but the double weakness with Salamence seems like a massive problem.

What would be a good Pokemon to go with standard Mega Salamence and Kartana? I've tried using Ash-Greninja, but it just doesn't seem to be pulling its weight most of the time, and I just got swept by Red's Lapras on my first Battle Tree run (it dodged all of my attacks, which were 100% accuracy moves, and OHKO'd my entire team).

I like Landorus-I and have a perfect Sheer Force one, but the double weakness with Salamence seems like a massive problem.

Do you see what I see?

Hi there. I wrote this spreadsheet up a while back and since then turskain has pinned it to the channel, so I figured I may as well post it here if the big man himself thinks it's worth pinning: LINK

This spreadsheet is different from Skewtr's in the sense that it doesn't show a trainer's entire team, only the Pokemon that you specify in the relevant boxes. It also presents significantly less data than his; for example, out of the 6 stats, it only shows the Pokemon's speed, and even then it always assumes an IV of 31, since it's built for post-50 play. Here's some documentation, in case anyone wants to use it:

Features:
- Two species slots, in case you're playing Doubles and need to account for those two different Pokemon on the field at the same time.
- Use whatever capitalisation you want, I coded to account for that (e.g. 'hydreigon' or 'HYDREIGON' or even 'hYdReIgOn' will produce the same results).
- Copy/paste function, in case you want to laugh or complain about that set you're facing in the Discord server, or want to quickly insert it into your post.
- Set the Trainer name to 'All' to see all possible sets for a Pokemon.
- Automatic bullshit detector: warns you about problematic moves (OHKO, Evasion) and items (Bright Powder, Lax Incense) in red.
- Automatic annoyance detector: warns you about potentially annoying moves (Protect, Detect, Spiky Shield, Baneful Bunker) and items (Focus Sash) in orange.

Known bugs:- If the selected trainer has both the Alolan and regular version of a Pokemon, searching for the regular version of the Pokemon will show the regular Pokemon's data, but twice. If there are more than 4 sets which would be picked up this way, only the first 4 will be shown. For example, searching for Dugtrio with 'All' as a trainer only shows Dugtrio-1 twice and Dugtrio-2 twice. I have no idea how to fix it for now, sorry.
- Some abilities may not show correctly. Let me know if this happens and I'll do my best to fix it, time permitting.

I've personally used this spreadsheet for 400~500 Doubles battles so far and it's provided accurate data every time, so it's not bad, I guess. Thanks to Team Rocket Elite for the data dump, and Skewtr for a bunch of the data used. Hope this helps you all; thanks for your time, and good luck with the Tree!

It's been a while, and I'm not sure if anyone uses this anymore, but I fixed the first bug, as bolded above. You can re-download / make a new copy of the spreadsheet at the same link, here. Then again, maybe there are other spreadsheets that do this better? I felt this needed to be fixed, though, so I fixed it. Cheers!

Tapu Fini is less ideal than it looks, seeing Salamence will not benefit from the status immunity.

Rarycaris Have you thought of just running Arcanine? You get another intimidate option, resists both the types that your other 2 are weak to, has +2 priority and can run both special and phisical set depending on preference, a gen 6 spatk arcanine can be running Dragon Pulse as well for added coverage if you so desire, while a gen 7 one can run the neverbad z-burnup set as well.

What would be a good Pokemon to go with standard Mega Salamence and Kartana? I've tried using Ash-Greninja, but it just doesn't seem to be pulling its weight most of the time, and I just got swept by Red's Lapras on my first Battle Tree run (it dodged all of my attacks, which were 100% accuracy moves, and OHKO'd my entire team).

I like Landorus-I and have a perfect Sheer Force one, but the double weakness with Salamence seems like a massive problem.

I think you definite need a special attacker to complement those two physical ones, or someone who can stall. scarf-Xurkitree and Suicune have been my go-to Pokemon when I just don't know what to use, since both can sweep so much just by themselves, and their low number of weaknesses means they can fit into so many teams.

First, we have the Trick Room setter, Aromatisse. I decided to use her over Oranguru, simply because of her ability. With Aroma Veil, she can’t get taunted or encored so that was a huge plus. It also prevents the effects of Cute Charm and Cursed Body on both herself and her allies. The Lum Berry was used so she couldn’t get confused, paralyzed, frozen, etc. The last time I tried Aromatisse out, a Mega Gengar ruined my day with its Sludge Bomb, so I EV’d the Aromatisse to survive Sludge Bomb (252 SpA Gengar-Mega Sludge Bomb vs. 252 HP / 76+ SpD Aromatisse: 174-206 (83.6 - 99%) -- guaranteed 2HKO). Dazzling Gleam is used for spread damage and to break potential sashes or Sturdy. I chose to put Helping Hand on this set to assist Aromatisse’s partners in KO-ing the bulkier Pokemon/potential threats. It came in handy a lot. Trick Room to take control of the battle, and Protect to stall out turns if needed.

Pretty standard Hariyama. The EV spread isn’t mine, it was taken from a VGC team I came across a while back. I believe other users have used the same spread. Fake Out is used to help Aromatisse set its Trick Room, CC for instant nukes, and Knock Off to hit Psychic-types. The only thing different from this Hariyama, I believe is Ice Punch. Most other Hariyamas run Heavy Slam, but I chose Ice Punch to hit various Flying-types and Dragon-types without having to sacrifice Defense or Sp. Defense from CC. It worked out really well. Even with its low BP, it was able to OHKO or 2HKO a lot of Pokemon, thanks to Guts and Helping Hand.

Next up, we have Araquanid. Again, it’s a pretty standard set but I decided to use Wide Guard here to protect Camerupt from Surfs, EQs, Rock Slides, and whatever other spread moves exist in the Tree. It was a huge help in 2v1 situations when Trick Room was down. In fact, on about 3 separate occasions, Wide Guard helped vs Suicune spamming Surf so Camerupt would be able to take it out. Liquidation and Leech Life are STAB, and Hydro Vortex for Z-nuke if needed.

And finally, Mega Camerupt. This guy is a monster. With the 1 Speed IV and Quiet Nature, Camerupt goes to 22 Speed after mega evolving, which lets it outspeed everything in the Tree except for Avalugg-4 thanks to its Iron Ball. It also speed-ties with both Shuckle-3 and Shuckle-4. But, none of those are threats so it didn’t really matter. Base 145 Sp. Attack, and Sheer Force make Flamethrower and Earth Power very powerful attacks and allowed Camerupt to run through a bunch of teams. Hidden Power Grass was a bit of an odd choice, but this guy was sitting in my box for a while and he’s shiny, so I didn’t really want to re-breed for HP Ice (which I felt I didn’t really need because of Ice Punch on Hariyama). HP Grass lets it hit Swampert and Gastrodon. However, without a Helping Hand or another attack going into those Pokemon, it’s a 2HKO on Mega Swampert, Swampert-4, and Gastrodon-4.

Main problems for this team were Water-types in general since I lacked Electric coverage, and HP Grass has pathetic damage, even with Mega Camerupt's amazing Sp. Attack. Gyarados was a huge problem mainly because of its Intimidate, but Mega Gyarados wasn’t that bad. In fact, Intimidate leads weren’t too much of a problem unless there was more than one. Hariyama still hits pretty hard, thanks to Guts and Helping Hand. Opposing Trick Room wasn’t too bad either, except for some Iron Ball users, such as Trevenant and Cresselia but usually, a Helping Hand-boosted Knock Off from Hariyama dealt with them pretty quickly.

Another problem was Mega Gengar, but as I said earlier, I did EV Aromatisse to have it survive its Sludge Bomb 100% of the time, barring crits, of course. Unfortunately, I ran into Mega Gengar once throughout this whole run and it tried to target down Hariyama instead of use Sludge Bomb on Aromatisse so it’s whatever, I guess.

Iron Head users were another issue, since Iron Head was almost always a 2HKO on Aromatisse AND it had that chance to flinch. I usually tried using Fake Out on the offenders, but Bisharp was a huge problem because of Inner Focus. Usually, if Pressure didn’t show, I would Protect Aromatisse, and try using CC on Bisharp with Hariyama, but Bisharp-4 is super annoying with its Sash. Fortunately, Aromatisse was only Iron Head flinched by it twice during the run, and it didn’t really matter in the end. Drapion can also KO Aromatisse with a Sniper crit from Cross Poison, but a nice Fake Out stopped that thing too. If the AI leads with Drapion and Bisharp, I usually Fake Out Bisharp if Pressure shows, but choose Drapion if it doesn’t. This combination only showed up twice during the run, both from Grimsley.

Losing battle vs Aether Foundation Luke: VDUG-WWWW-WWW8-5L68
So, here, I was kinda gambling with Sableye-4’s Fake Out, and hoped it would try using it on the protecting Aromatisse, but it ended up using it on Hariyama, and Flareon-4 used its Flare Blitz on Aromatisse. On the next turn, I do get my Trick Room up as Flareon uses Z-Flare Blitz on Hariyama (which KO’s it, unfortunately), and Sableye uses Will-O-Wisp on Aromatisse, which gets cleansed by its Lum Berry. Aromatisse gets Trick Room off and Araquanid comes out. I use Helping Hand+Z-Liquidation on Sableye, completely forgetting it has a Focus Sash, and it ends up using Metal Burst on Araquanid, taking it out. Flareon goes for a Flare Blitz, taking just over half of Aromatisse’s HP. M-Camerupt ended up taking out Flareon and M-Glalie in the backline with Earth Power and Flamethrower respectively, but Dragonite-4 was just a bit much for my last two Pokemon and beat them both down pretty handily with Iron Tail and Dragon Rush. Oh well.

Other battles I ended up saving:
Battle 50 vs Battle Legend Blue: MFXG-WWWW-WWW8-5L6D
Blue leads off with Gyarados-4 and Machamp-4. I use Fake Out on Gyarados after it Mega Evolves, and set Trick Room as Machamp uses EQ. Dazzling Gleam+Close Combat take out Gyarados, and enemy CC takes out Hariyama. Araquanid comes out. DG takes out Machamp, and Liquidation takes out Aerodactyl-?. Battle ends with Helping Hand+Hydro Vortex on Pidgeot-?.

Battle 132 vs Pokemon Center Lady Perri: 2XJW-WWWW-WWW8-5L6J
Perri leads off with Slowbro-4 and Lilligant-?. Lilligant uses Protect on my Fake Out, but I still get my Trick Room off as Slowbro uses Surf. I know Slowbro out-speeds Hariyama under Trick Room, but I just go with it. DG into Slowbro and Lilligant, and CC into Lilligant to take it out. Surf from Slowbro again. Slowking-2 up next. Surf from Slowbro finishes off Hariyama after DG from Aromatisse. Slowking uses Zen Headbutt on Aromatisse. Araquanid and M-Camerupt up next. AI switches out Slowbro into Togedemaru. Camerupt eats it up with Earth Power, and Leech Life from Araquanid Kos Slowking. Battle finishes with Earth Power from Camerupt.

Battle 238 vs Punk Guy Etta: P6YW-WWWW-WWW8-5L6S
Etta leads off with Rotom-Fan-3 and Arcanine-3. Fake Out into Rotom, Arcanine uses Sunny Day. Trick Room is set. DG and Ice Punch KO Rotom, Arcanine uses Overheat on Aromatisse, does about 60%. Staraptor-? out next. DG and Ice Punch again to take out Staraptor before it can even make a move, Arcanine uses Solar Beam into Hariyama, for some reason. Gyarados-4 out last, Intimidate activates. I take a chance and hope it is indeed Gyarados-4, and use DG+CC to take it out. That was risky. Arcanine finishes off Hariyama with Overheat, and Araquanid is out next. Battle finishes with Helping Hand+Hydro Vortex.

Battle 340 vs Pokemon Trainer Anabel: Y6HW-WWWW-WWW8-5L74
I saved this battle only because I love facing Anabel whenever she shows up. Anyway, she leads off with Latios-2 and Entei-3. Latios protects itself from my Fake Out, as Entei locks itself into Eruption. Aromatisse sets Trick Room. Aromatisse switches out into Araquanid and Hariyama’s Knock Off takes out Latios. Entei uses Eruption again, and that + the burn takes out Hariyama. M-Camerupt up next, Anabel sends out Lucario-4. M-Camerupt’s Flamethrower takes out Lucario, and Liquidation takes out Entei. Finally, Snorlax. I assume it’s Snorlax-3 based on Flamethrower’s damage but it doesn’t really matter because Hydro Vortex finishes it off right after.

I had a lot of fun with this team, but I feel like I could have gone farther if it weren’t for that silly mistake I made in that losing battle. Oh well, shit happens, right? See ya.

Hi guys, I have a few questions and I hope it's ok to post them all together. This is all for Singles keeping in mind I just cleared a Gen 7 game for the first time.
First and second, why aren't Mega Kangaskhan and Suicune used as much as in the Maison?
Third, can anyone give me a recommended set for Aegislash and Mega Salamence? And then something to pair with them for my team?
Thanks!

Hi guys, I have a few questions and I hope it's ok to post them all together. This is all for Singles keeping in mind I just cleared a Gen 7 game for the first time.
First and second, why aren't Mega Kangaskhan and Suicune used as much as in the Maison?
Third, can anyone give me a recommended set for Aegislash and Mega Salamence? And then something to pair with them for my team?
Thanks!

Parental Bond and Sucker Punch are nerfed, and Kangaskhan needed every bit of that power last generation to KO faster threats.

Suicune's main niche was that you could switch it back and forth with Gliscor to quickly stall something out of the BoltBeam coverage that the vast majority of opponents had and then set one of the two up, but now there are things with different coverage that can break through both of them.

If you're just trying to get 50 or so quickly I would recommend this team, which does about as well as I would expect any 'aggro' team to do:

Otherwise you can search for Salamence in the first page and click on a few of the teams there. The longer streaks will have a set of Return, Dragon Dance, Substitute, and Roost with the ideal third team member being something that can cripple and/or PP stall special attackers so Salamence can set up against even more leads. Eviolite Chansey does this the best.

Hi,
i am sorry for posting only theoretical teams (i dont have SuMo), but lately i had much fun with theoryzing teams/ideas. Feel free if you want to test it. Maybe i'll do, someday.
All Mons are somehow pretty Standard, but i think they havent been used in this constellation yet, and maybe one could have some fun. Actually i think that this team has some serious potential.

Changes:
The only difference is the change from Sceptile to Landorus. I think it is important to switch one lead out while the other can still use Discharge. Sceptile cant come in because it has to mega-evolve first to get its Immunity. Also this team is a bit weak to Fire (-> Threat List).
There arent many Pokemon with both Ground and Electric Immunity. I think the best choice for this team is Landorus. Great power, some bulk, few weaknesses, adequate speed. It needs to be a special set for the Ground STAB, since Earthquake shouldnt work too well in this team. Sludgebomb is a nice coverage move to Earthpower - only very few Mons resist both, and many of them are hit super effecitive by HP Ice. atsync used the same Landorus with similar leads.

Threat List:
Ground Types:
Most obvious threat. Actually i think they are not too dangerous since many of them have two times weaknesses to Surf/Grassknot/Ice... Also the backrow is immune to Ground, and can take some other hits as well as kill them fast (Lando) or stall them down (Steela). I think this Duo can easily take out many Mono-Type Ground teams.Lightningrod/Voltabsorb:
Immune to the main attacks of my leads, but they cant hurt me much, too. Kokos HP Ground helps.Fire Types:
This team has one Fire Weakness, but no resistance. There are some Fire Mons that dont go down quickly, but can deal huge amounts of Damage with STAB-FlareBlitz etc. My leads can do some damage of course, and Landorus (who has a really nice Speed, slightly outspeeding for instance Charizard (X/Y), Typhlosion, Entei, Ninetales, Mega-Blaziken (before Speed Boost), Volcarona.) can KO many of them with Sheer Force STAB LO Earthpower.Scarfer:
Some Scarfer are really dangerous to this team. Garchomp sadly cant be KOed by Dazzling Gleam + Fake Out. Darmanitan also is super dangerous; only Lando survives non-crit Flareblitz savely.
Eruption Spam also can be unconvenient (as Fire Mons in general are) if it appears in the wrong situations. In turn one i can Fake Out + Discharge, reducing the damage. In other situations i might lose my leads since i cant switch Lando/Steela in. Once they are in, i can use Wide Guard/Earthpower.
As always with Scarfer one needs to play smartly around.Alolan Marowak:
He gets a special mention. Only Landorus can OHKO him, but my whole team is a OHKO to Flareblitz. Thats one reason to play Koko with HP Ground: Together with Raichus Surf they also can kill Marowak.

I guess once this team is played, some other threats will make it on that list.

Posting a new 50 streak with my personal challenge with reaching 50 streaks with as many mega Pokemon as possible. I am now adding Blastoise to my list of completion that includes Kangashan, Medicham, Beedrill, Charizard Y, and Garchomp! I got to a streak of 54 with this team.

The star of the show, Mega Blastoise is a no fuss beater with great coverage, 2HKO just about everything not specially defensive while tanking like a champ. Hydro Pump is chosen to make it hit as hard as possible, because that's what it does the best. It can usually live with missing a hit here or there thanks to how tanky it is. I was pretty lazy with breeding, that's why I added some SpD EV to compensate, otherwise it would be 252 Hp.

Originally I had scarf-Xurkitree in this spot, but after getting beat down by grass teams, I turned to Buzzwole. It's job is to act as a finisher and to antagonize against grass Pokemon. With a wide coverage set, it is very good at doing just that.

The pivot of the team. Landorus likes to come in, intimidate, and U-turn out if it cannot defeat the opponent, which is rarely. Some people don't like Fly, but it works just like any other attack in the Battle Tree since opponent rarely prepares for it (but when it did, I lost, see the video below). With Fly and Earthquake, Landorus becomes the perfect complement to fight against Blastoise's natural enemies.

I always enjoy playing teams that can come straight out the gate and beat face instead of ones that need to stall and setup. Every Pokemon in this team does just that. They don't think, they just smash you. Beat one down, and the next one will smack you just as hard. They also provide each other with coverage. I liken them to bunch of dumb thugs who spent too much time at the gym. They got each other's back alright.

Here are the videos of legend battle and battle 55 in which I lost. I don't know what I could've done, that Eelektross was just too beastly and too bulky.

50% Berry enthusiast

So.... I've noticed that in both the spreadsheet and turskain's damage calculator, Incineroar3 holds a Firium Z but has no fire move... o.o Is it a data mining error, or were GF too sleepy when they did that?? My few encounters with it did seem to confirm the data is right, but it never stayed on the field long enough for me to confirm the whole moveset or the item.

(My apologies if this has been asked/answered before, I searched and couldn't find any reference to it!)

Parental Bond and Sucker Punch are nerfed, and Kangaskhan needed every bit of that power last generation to KO faster threats.

Suicune's main niche was that you could switch it back and forth with Gliscor to quickly stall something out of the BoltBeam coverage that the vast majority of opponents had and then set one of the two up, but now there are things with different coverage that can break through both of them.

If you're just trying to get 50 or so quickly I would recommend this team, which does about as well as I would expect any 'aggro' team to do:

Otherwise you can search for Salamence in the first page and click on a few of the teams there. The longer streaks will have a set of Return, Dragon Dance, Substitute, and Roost with the ideal third team member being something that can cripple and/or PP stall special attackers so Salamence can set up against even more leads. Eviolite Chansey does this the best.

Reporting a completed streak of 221 wins for Super Doubles. Same lead with a few changes to the sets, and completely swapped out the back-ups to deal with Electric types better. Expect another run lol because I wasn't all too happy about the loss (burn stalled) and probably could have gone further. Nonetheless, the changes to the team and more experience with A.I. tendencies, did help me get a better streak, so I'm interested to see how far the team can go, and with KokoChu lead in general.

Swapped HP Ice for Grass Knot (again). Admittedly, I didn't do the calcs when choosing between Grass Knot vs. HP Ice. I realized that it's really just for Landorus and Gliscor, both of which, can easily be dealt with, using Fake Out + Dazzling Gleam then Psychic. Moreover, it doesn't OHKO all pseudo legend sets (Dragonite-1,3/2,4 with Multiscale, Yache Berry Salamence-3, Garchomp-4 (Mega)) and other x4 Ice weak mons like Altaria and Torterra. On the other hand, Grass Knot was a lot more useful and guaranteed OHKOs to certain Ground types as an added bonus.

Decided to go with a more defensive set because of Raichu's frailty and lack of Protect. Sash works notably well against Sucker Punch and baiting attacks at 1 HP, at that point often getting a free switch-in usually by Kartana after say, a failed Sucker Punch, or a priority move (all physical), in which case Kartana shrugs off comfortably. This allows for a second Fake Out when Raichu comes back to replace a teammate.

Psychic was indispensable for hitting Ground types and for finishing off scarfed EQ users after Fake Out + Dazzling Gleam. Electro Ball still does big damage to slower mons, mostly turning 3HKOs into 2HKOs, and is arguably more useful than Protect or Grass Knot (considering two Grass moves in the team already). 78 Spe EVs to hit 280 speed and deal 150 BP damage up to 70 speed mons (65 if uninvested).

I've also made a list of mons that Electro Ball OHKOs which otherwise Thunderbolt (or Psychic) would not (for the 3/4 sets), although it's important to know the exact set to be sure it does.

Probably the most defensive Kartana set anyone has used so far (in the tree at least). I wanted to make use of Kartana's great defensive typing and patch up the stats that were lacking and hence, the given nature and spread.

Didn't know which item to use at first, since Garchomp had the Z move, and Assault Vest was too risky to run without proper Fire support (Tectonic Rage can only be so useful). I was using Air Balloon for a while so Garchomp can EQ freely without having to use Protect, and switch in on Ground types, but it seemed lacking and breaks with one hit.

Eventually, I settled with Electric Seed to complement the set, and basically turned Kartana into a physical tank (minus SE hits but can tank some Fighting moves if necessary). The added defense allows Kartana to take on the bulkiest of physical attackers (mostly Ground, Rock, Steel, and Normal types) and hit them for SE damage. 68 Spe EVs to outspeed 137 speed Fighting type and coverage mons by 1 point. This makes Kartana the slowest member of the team and is particularly useful for picking off free boosts if the others weren't able to get the KO.

Take note, even with all the investment Kartana's SpD is still average at best. The intention was to tank neutral special attacks and shrug off NVE special attacks well enough to counter back at them while maintaining relatively high health, since Kartana doesn't always OHKO every special attacker out there and is prone to being revenge killed in return. Grass typing also provides an Electric resist, which is somewhat neutralized by terrain, but still useful (unless paralyzed).

Same set as in Josh C.'s team except the 4 EVs are in HP (no need to set up 4 subs now lol). Everyone was able to take advantage of Electric Terrain in one way or another (Terrain setter Koko and speed boost Raichu, while both gaining an Electric boost; Defense boost Kartana; anti sleep lol) but with the disadvantage of boosting opposing Electric types so I wanted something that would serve as an anti terrain abuser and a Ground type seemed to be the best answer.

Tectonic Rage was a must because the 2 leads didn't have Protect and also gets rid of (grounded) evasion boosters. Poison Jab hits Grass types which aren't much of a threat aside from Electric resist and some with Bug type coverage. It also hits Fairy types hard in case Garchomp has to deal with them.

Same as the first team although Electric and Ground types are much easier to deal with now thanks to the changes in the team. Haven't had a battle when TR went up during the streak but there was one with Tailwind, which is posted in the replays.

Rotom sets are particularly annoying since Z move can't hit them and the most dangerous one would have to be Rotom-Heat as it threatens Kartana and resists Koko's Dazzling Gleam.

Fake Out and Sucker Punch users are also bothersome so I use Fake Out on them turn 1 (or on the partner since Sucker Punch fails with Fake Out).

Hail and Sandstorm setters get a special mention for breaking Raichu's sash, but is usually good news for Kartana since it has coverage for them.

Inner Focus mons while not necessarily a threat can waste a Fake Out if not identified as such.

Battle 112 vs Punk Guy Dustin LJTW-WWWW-WWW8-628Q

Quadruple Intimidate which reminded me why I shouldn't lead with physical attackers lol.

Battle 172 vs Punk Girl Zed MCNG-WWWW-WWW8-6293

Beedrill immune to Psychic screwed up the first turn thanks to it actually being Zoroark but after that I always made sure to check if the trainer has possible Zoroark sets and avoid using Psychic if I can help it (Thunderbolt also OHKOs Beedrill).

Battle 187 vs Veteran Kikujiro VE8G-WWWW-WWW8-6296

All Electric team although I encountered him only once during the streak. Didn't use Tectonic Rage as the last two mons were part Flying and highlights the team's capabilities outside of Electric moves.

Battle 194 vs Ace Trainer Lea 5KVW-WWWW-WWW8-629D

The one battle when Tailwind was set up because I didn't want a Quiver or Teeter Dance party from Lilligant and knowing I had Kartana at the back to deal with Whimsicott.

Loss

Battle 222 vs Dancer Carrie 3VJG-WWWW-WWW8-629P

Should've targeted Weezing first but I was preoccupied with Abomasnow threatening Garchomp. Weezing mocks Garchomp with Levitate then takes nice little naps knowing full well that his enemies are slowly burning to death lol. The freeze didn't help at all (again) and I like the description if it's a 10HKO or more in turskain's damage calculator: 252 Atk burned Garchomp Dragon Claw vs. +3 252 HP / 0 Def Weezing: 12-15 (6.9 - 8.7%) -- possibly the worst move ever.

I enjoyed how fast and straightforward it is to use the team with some battles ending up without losing anyone. The team could still use some improvements but with only a few close calls, it was a good run overall.

So.... I've noticed that in both the spreadsheet and turskain's damage calculator, Incineroar3 holds a Firium Z but has no fire move... o.o Is it a data mining error, or were GF too sleepy when they did that?? My few encounters with it did seem to confirm the data is right, but it never stayed on the field long enough for me to confirm the whole moveset or the item.

(My apologies if this has been asked/answered before, I searched and couldn't find any reference to it!)

I could be wrong, but I seem to remember hearing that Darkest Lariat was originally going to be a Fire-type move and was later changed to Dark-type.
If this is the case, the Firium-Z Incineroar-3 could be a hold over from that situation...